You may be thinking of Rhino's original Westwood store, which was
somewhat closer to UCLA than the current store, which is a number of
blocks further south than the original.

--- Barry Schlom
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org 
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Craig Leve
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:37 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Rhino store in LA closes
> 
> Wow...I gotta say this is living proof "nobody walks in 
> L.A."...I mean I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which is 
> suburban L.A.for those of you who don't know the geography 
> and found I really had to shake this issue after I left in 
> 1988 for grad school. At UC Santa Cruz, my friends would 
> laugh as I 'drove' to cross campus. As for the UCLA-Rhino 
> Records commute, only in L.A., (and this distance is truly a 
> pretty short mile...as I remember) would people call this 
> other than 'walking distance'. 
> 
> I just met a guy up here in Eugene, OR who used to work at 
> the Rhino Record store, I'll have to ask him if they got much 
> student traffic. But I don't doubt you're right.
> 
> -craig
> 
> P.s. but as we all know..and I'm not saying otherwise - it's 
> not the walk that's killing places like Rhino.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org 
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Barry S.
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:04 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Rhino store in LA closes
> 
> 
> Living as I do near Westwood, I add the following:
> 
> Westwood Village, which _is_ adjacent to campus, is about 50% 
> boarded-up storefronts.  And Rhino is around one mile south 
> not within walking distance of UCLA or its on-campus or 
> campus-adjacent housing.  That campus population just doesn't 
> shop in the area.
> 
> --- Barry Schlom
>  
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: audities-owner@smoe.org
> > [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Coxe
> > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 2:42 PM
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Re: Rhino store in LA closes
> > 
> > From one story...   - michael
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-et-rhino06jan06,0,4759714
> > .story?coll=cl-home-top-blurb-right
> > 
> > Rhino founder Richard Foos, speaking in dejected tones, 
> said Thursday 
> > that it "had become very apparent that it was too difficult 
> to go on."
> > The store's lease expired and Foos opted to lock the doors. 
> > The store plans a Jan. 21 parking-lot sale that will be part wake, 
> > part fire sale.
> > 
> > "But we are hoping now for a white knight to show up and buy the 
> > inventory and the name and hopefully carry on the 
> tradition," he said.
> > "It was a very emotional decision but this is where it's at. 
> > Now in Westwood you have no free-standing record stores. 
> You have one 
> > of the largest colleges in the country and no independent record 
> > store. That says a lot."
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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